Some people have a bad day. | Calibrations

[heeeyadora]

WHO: Catra, OPEN
WHERE: Catra's Calibration Room
WHAT: Catra's Calibration
WHEN: 3 June - 10 June
WARNINGS: Child abuse, violence, possible She-Ra spoilers (up to end of season 4)



The room you step into is one of utilitarian design, metal walls and bunks with perfunctory mats that serves as mattresses, along with a single pillow. By it there's a crude drawing of two girls, one of which seems to be scratched out.

A small shape sits on the end of one of the lower bunks, hidden away under a thin blanket and sniffling, though she'll hiss if you approach. She holds a letter clutched tight in her fists, and that may be what has her so upset.

Meanwhile, the longer you're here, more you might begin to notice, something seems off. Part of the room seems to be fading away, being slowly devoured by whiteness. Will you avoid the impending doom or explore it?

Comments

[brooklyn_boy]

Steve looks around the new room he woke up into. It's strangely comforting compared to some of the others. Spartan decorating and the almost military-like efficiency in design makes him feel like he's back at home on The Bishop. Or even on the Quinjet. He can't help but smile a little as he glances around the whole area and walks carefully deeper.

As he walks, however, he can see that the room seems to be dissolving. It's like someone was drawing the room and had made a mistake before slowly starting to erase it. Carefully, Steve walks closer to it and extends a hand. He doesn't want to go further into it until he knows he won't be erased with the walls.

[heeeyadora]

For the moment at least, he seems to be all right, though that nothing is definitely advancing, slowly but surely. After a short moment though it's clear that the closer he is to it, the more in danger he is of fading away too, the edges of his fingertips starting to ghost.

"You shouldn't touch that," the girl huddled under the blanket warns.

[brooklyn_boy]

Steve spins around, looking at the girl under the blanket and then back at his fingers. As they start to vanish, he pulls his hand back and steps away from the creeping whiteness. He hooks his thumb over toward it as soon as he's a comfortable distance.

"What is that? Some sort of...blank spot?"

[heeeyadora]

"..." The girl looks evasive, and maybe a little guilty. "It's from the portal," she explains, not that it will mean much of anything to Steve. "You should go before everything is gone."

[brooklyn_boy]

Steve looks back at the white space and then to the girl. "From the portal? What portal?" He hasn't been in a room that was in a real sort of danger, before. It almost makes his latent hero-instincts perk back up. But it is still just a vision, here. It wasn't real. Right? No, it couldn't be.

It never had been before.

"Can you stop it?"

[heeeyadora]

"Catra, please don't!"

An unfamiliar voice echoes through the room, and Catra frowns, tugging the blanket closer and shaking her head. "I started it. I'm not the one who stops it. It's Adora. It's always Adora."

[brooklyn_boy]

The names mean nothing to him but Steve nods all the same. He bends down so that he can see Catra better while still watching the fading room in his periphery.

"Adora? She...a friend? Family?" Steve would guess a sister from the tone of jealousy, but that is only a guess.

[heeeyadora]

She peers up at him, and that blanket falls back enough to reveal those cat ears, which twist back, eyes narrowing. "...She's nothing to me," she mutters, but it's hard to pull of the denial in this younger form.

[brooklyn_boy]

Huh. Ears. Not the strangest thing Steve has ever seen. The little girl would need a few extra eyes and arms to reach that level. Steve tries to smile and be as non-threatening as possible.

"In my experience, the people who are nothing to us are the ones that have the biggest impact. Good or bad."

[heeeyadora]

That excellent read earns Steve a glare, and she pointedly shuffles and turns about so she has her back to him, fuming quietly.

"What would you know? I don't even know who you are."

[brooklyn_boy]

"Steve," he introduces. "Steve Rogers. From a place called Earth, if you've heard of it?"

He extended both a smile and a hand toward the girl. "And I would know because I have seen a lot of people in the same position. Myself included. It's normal, I promise."

[heeeyadora]

"..." She eyes the hand warily for a moment before climbing out from the blanket to take it, still not looking completely sure as she introduces herself.

"Catra. And I haven't heard this Earth place before. I'm from the Fright Zone, in Etheria. And if you're not with the Horde you should get out of here before someone catches you. You'll get in trouble."